Want to make a veteran product person sad? Just ask them how they've used MVPs in the past. Once you get past the sobbing, you're likely to get stories of the myriad ways that a perfectly good experiment got turned into a v1 release.

It doesn't have to be like that! Dan Olsen joins us on the podcast to teach Lily & Randy how to actually control the scope of an MVP, guide us through some of his favourites, and why MVP failure can be considered a success.

Featured Links: Follow Dan on LinkedIn, Twitter and his Website｜Read Dan's The Lean Product Playbook｜Types of MVPs | Lean Product Meetup | The original MVP article How to successfully validate your idea with a Landing Page MVP - and the follow-up,four days later,|A Landing Page is NOT an MVP | Aaron Walter's book Designing for Emotion